Glenn G. Lammi

Glenn Lammi is Chief Counsel, Legal Studies Division, for Washington Legal Foundation. He has been at WLF for over 20 years and is responsible for managing the conception, creation, and release of its legal policy papers, as well as...

Glenn Lammi is Chief Counsel, Legal Studies Division, for Washington Legal Foundation. He has been at WLF for over 20 years and is responsible for managing the conception, creation, and release of its legal policy papers, as well as for directing its various communications devices, such as media briefings, web seminars, and brief videos. Mr. Lammi is the lead editor of WLF’s blog, The Legal Pulse, and writes several columns a week for the site. He also drafts tweets for WLF’s Twitter account (@WashLglFndt). He earned his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law and his B.A. from Penn State University.

A federal trial judge in California admirably bucked the trend in food-labeling litigation by forcefully shutting down an unreasonable class action, a decision that should jeopardize copycat lawsuits filed in the same federal court.

A Brooklyn-based federal judge properly dismissed class-action claims, reasoning that statements made on a mashed potato product's packaging, when considered in the context of the entire label, would not mislead the reasonable consumer into making an unintended purchase.

America's antitrust regulators should retain the time-honored consumer welfare standard when assessing business conduct and eschew calls to embrace an amorphous "public interest" standard that would turn antitrust laws into an all-purpose cure-all tool for socioeconomic ills.

A federal court's decision to allow a hand-cream purchaser to argue that the product is unlawfully being sold as an unapproved drug under state law reflects how far plaintiffs' lawyers can stretch a crafty legal maneuver that allows private enforcement of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act